Performance Today Features

Dame Ethel Smyth was one of England's most successful turn-of-the-century composers.

Composer Fanny Hensel is considered to be one of the most important composers of the romantic era.

We recently started tracking how many pieces of music on our program were composed by, performed by or conducted by women. The numbers made it clear: women are underrepresented. Performance Today wants to change that.

Join host Fred Child for in-studio interviews with guitarist Thomas Viloteau, as well as exclusive musical performances.

This Thanksgiving, Splendid Table host Lynne Rossetto Kasper joins Fred in the studio to discuss kitchen misadventures, misspent youth, evocative musical memories and more in a special hour of PT.

When a dementia or stroke limits one's ability to speak, singing in a choir can restore voice and build new social connections.

Join host Fred Child for in-studio interviews with violinist Blake Pouliot, as well as exclusive musical performances.

The Music is Music podcast's complete second season is here--and it's taking you to some unexpected places.

You can find Emily Howell's music all over the internet, but a search for Emily Howell the person comes up empty. She plays no concerts, attends no events, has no email address, and not a single photo comes up under a google search. The reason? It's surprisingly simple. Join Music is Music host Ria Misra as she talks with composer David Cope about who Emily Howell is--and what Emily Howell means for the future of music.

Everything is a videogame where you can, literally, be the universe--whether you're playing as a strip of bacon, a planet, a bug, or even a thought. But in that huge world of character possibilities there's also a huge world of musical possibilities. Ben Lukas Boysen and Sebastian Plano, the composers who wrote the music for Everything, join Music is Music host Ria Misra for a conversation about games, music, and what they mean.